Fame with a ball

Lin Zhigao was so excited that he couldn't believe all this, but Jiang Shupeng told him clearly on the phone: He has indeed won, no, he will soon win the European Golden Boy Award.

Although the "Turin Sports Daily" has not published this news, it is not uncommon for the selection results to leak a little before the newspaper is published. Jiang Shupeng, as Lin Zhigao's manager, was informed in advance by some "good-hearted people" received the news.

In the latest issue of "Turin Sports Gazette" tomorrow morning, the news of Lin Zhigao's award will be spread across the entire European continent in an instant, no, the entire world.

Being informed of two good news at the same time in one day, Lin Zhigao almost doubted his own luck.

"I love this kind of life, passion, ups and downs, and good luck that will come at any time." Lin Zhigao stuffed a large lamb chop into his mouth with a smile, chewed a few mouthfuls and swallowed it , and couldn't wait to speak: "Maybe there are still injuries, bad luck and so on, but life must be like this to be exciting, isn't it? Choosing to become a professional player is really the most correct decision I have ever made."

"I think so too." John shook the red wine glass in his hand: "The players who have won the Golden Boy Award have become world superstars, and you are obviously no exception. The peaceful life we ​​can have is about to be disrupted. Maybe the next time we eat together, the table will be full of fans asking for your autograph."

"Sounds very good. But, my friend, no matter how enthusiastic my fans are, I will never ignore your feelings. Our friendship will never change." Lin Zhigao raised his glass: "Cheers to the friendship that lasts forever." !"

John smiled and clinked glasses with Lin Zhigao: "For friendship, forever."

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On the second day, "Torino Sport" published the news that the winner of the 2012 European Golden Boy Award was Lin Zhigao, and the data showed that Lin Zhigao's votes were five points higher than No.2 Thiago One of the votes.

Of course, other paper media didn't have time to publish a special issue on the same day, but they also have tricks to deal with it - the online news of "Bild", "Kicker", "The Times" and other newspapers and periodicals have already published this article in time news.

Domestic journalists reacted even more quickly. They immediately bought "Torino Sport" for translation, or directly reprinted news reports from foreign websites, and then synchronized them to domestic news websites. Sohu, Tencent, Netease, and Sina The news came out almost at the same time.

Domestic fans just learned that Lin Zhigao was wearing the No. 10 jersey in the live broadcast of Serie A. The discussion on microblogs on major Internet forums has just begun, and even many newspapers have published the news. They suddenly realize that they are outdated again. up.Because of public opinion in the domestic media circles, it will soon be directed to the European Golden Boy Awards.

Compared with a No. 10 jersey that is obviously more symbolic than practical, the European Golden Boy Award is obviously more eye-catching.Because this is not a tasteless award, it is an award with extremely high gold content, which is completely voted by authoritative European sports practitioners!

Speaking of football, who knows the players best?Apart from themselves, their teammates and the head coach who get along day and night, the people who know these players best are undoubtedly the professional sports reporters.Because of the special nature of the sports reporter industry, they are required to pay attention to professional players all the time, understand their characteristics, physical fitness, game results, and even gossip and scandals, etc. When necessary, reporters also need to use vicious The writing style and seasoned eyes make a harsh evaluation of the player, so as to meet the needs of readers.

The Golden Boy Award is called the "young version of the Golden Globe Award". It is not just a talk. You must know that the Golden Globe Award, known as the highest personal honor for a player, is also a sports organization organized by "French Football" and UEFA's 52 member countries. The senior reporters of the media voted for them. They have the same nature and the same selection method. The only difference is that the Golden Boy Award only focuses on young players.

What makes this award even more glorious is that more than half of its former nine winners have grown into real world superstars.

The fact that Lin Zhigao won the Golden Boy Award was on the news network that night. This is the second time he has been on the news network. The last time was when he was playing in the Premier League.And, when he kept breaking records in Europe, he also broke a record in China—becoming the first athlete to be on the news network twice. Before him, Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, and Li Na were the only three to be on the news network Athletic players, and they all only played once.

And the good news is that all the manufacturers who signed contracts with Lin Zhigao, after hearing the news, kept calling Jiang Shupeng-they asked Lin Zhigao to extend the contract, increase the contract bonus, and as soon as possible, renew the contract. Shoot some new commercials.

Of course, in addition to the old manufacturers, new contracts have come again, and this time there are many world-class brands. Jiang Shupeng is almost dazzled just looking at the thickness of the contracts that are constantly being updated.

Jiang Shupeng has been busy going around these days. He is busy recruiting the employees of Lin Zhigao's studio and trying his best to divide the scope of work for them in detail. Lin Zhigao hired a person who specializes in dealing with reporters. He is the best former media practitioner. If not, he must be someone who understands the environment very well.

The positive impact of Lin Zhigao's winning news is not only in China. In fact, because of this news, most Juventus fans have changed their views on Lin Zhigao again.

Before the start of this season, most of them did not like Lin Zhigao. No matter how popular Lin Zhigao is in the Premier League, these Juventus fans just think that the club spent 2000 to bring such a young boy from the UK, and he is still a non-Italian It's a bit of a loss for players of American descent. Obviously, 2000 million can buy a very good Italian striker.

After more than half of the season, Lin Zhigao finally conquered some people by virtue of his good performance in the Champions League, and began to have his own fan group in Juventini. An impressive number of growth.

But this number had a tendency to drop in the first two days - it was all because of the jersey Lin Zhigao was wearing.Many fans, more than half, still stubbornly believe that 10 belongs to the Zebra Prince's number in their minds, and think that Lin Zhigao can't replace Del Piero's position in Juventus, and they refuse to admit that Lin Zhigao has fully grown in a few years It will be better than Del Piero. For this reason, they are angry and feel that the club executives must have lost their heads, otherwise why would such an important number be awarded to a Chinese who has not yet achieved any honor in Italy?

Some of John's speeches really saved many neutral fans for Lin Zhigao, and they decided to wait and see.But there are also diehard fans who had a good impression of Lin Zhigao before, and threw away or burned Lin Zhigao's original No. 16 jersey in a rage.They even planned to hold a protest to ask the club to change the jersey number for Lin Zhigao.

But there is no doubt that these fans will soon regret their irrational actions-the news of the latest winner of the European Golden Boy Award has attracted Turin, Juventus, and even Europe. The eyes of the whole world, everyone is paying attention to this teenager who has grown rapidly from the Bianconeri and started to rise. The vanity of the fans has been satisfied, and their thoughts have begun to waver again.

The reason they rejected Lin Zhigao before was that he had no achievements in Serie A, but now that Lin Zhigao has won such a heavyweight award, isn't this enough to make them relax a little bit and look at him with tolerance? what?

Of course it can.

One of the evidences is that a batch of Lin Zhigao No. 16 jersey stocks in the Turin sports franchise store were quickly sold out.Many fans rushed into the specialty store, bought a new No. 10 Lin Zhigao jersey, and bought another No. 16 jersey. Some people even wondered if there was any way to get Lin Zhigao's No. When playing, the No. 9 jersey is worn.

These fans feel that if Lin Zhigao really becomes a world superstar one day in the future, wouldn't every jersey he wears be very collectible?

The second evidence is that when Lin Zhigao occasionally appeared on the streets of Turin, the number of fans around him who wanted to sign autographs began to increase exponentially. Of course, reporters often appeared with the fans.

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Lin Changan couldn't even make it to class, and his wife Qian Hongyan suffered the same thing as him.

The reporters kept circling around the place where he worked, waiting for him in the guard room, waiting for him at the gate of the community, and when they saw his figure, they jumped at it like a fly seeing a crack in an egg. The unnutritious topic is asking about his parenting experience, or trying to use him to get an exclusive interview with Lin Zhigao.

Not only did Lin Changan suffer, his colleagues were often pulled to ask some random questions, such as "Lin Zhigao was not cute when he was young", "Is he a child who likes puppy love", "How is Lin Changan's football skills, Is Lin Zhigao hereditary?"

Ordinary people are joyful and curious at the beginning when they are interviewed by reporters, but after a long time, when their lives are disrupted by reporters, they get annoyed.Now the whole unit has criticisms against this group of reporters, but the reporters are very disciplined, just waiting for Lin Changan to show up for interviews, firstly, not disrupting social order, secondly, not committing any crimes, and they cannot call the police to arrest them.

Moreover, these reporters are not all local, because everyone knows that Lin Zhigao will definitely go home after the winter break, so sports reporters from all over the country came to Zhengzhou for an emergency gathering!In the end, Lin Changan's leader saw that this matter would not be finished in a short time, so he waved his hand: "Old Lin, your family has been quite busy recently, so you should go home and rest for a while. When the momentum of these reporters passes, When will you come back to work, of course, you must be on paid leave."

What happened to Qian Hongyan was a little worse than that of Lin Changan.Lin Chang'an is just an employee of a state-owned enterprise and has a leisurely job, while Qian Hongyan is the attending doctor of the hospital, and she has to attend consultations every day!

The reporters dealt with Qian Hongyan the same way they dealt with Lin Chang'an. They often wandered around the hospital with their cameras on their shoulders. Some people pretended to be doctors and sneaked into Qian Hongyan's consultation room. The real patients were all gone. Fa went to see a doctor, and the hospital became more and more chaotic like a vegetable market, so Qian Hongyan was "on leave" and went home.

The couple of Lao Lin's family came home from their vacation, and they looked at each other helplessly, angry and funny.

In fact, Lin Chang'an had asked someone for help, and that was Sun Dawei. Since Sun Dawei met Lin Zhigao, he had never lost contact with him, and he would go around during the holidays—of course, it was Sun Dawei who went to Lin's house.Sun Dawei's current official position is getting higher and higher, and he has been mixed up with the position of deputy editor-in-chief in "Sports Weekly". Moreover, he has reviewed the domestic and international situations and concluded that "in the next ten years, we must still hold on to Lin Zhigao's thighs and not waver." "decision.

Lin Chang'an thought that Sun Dawei was a reporter, and he was a famous reporter. Let him talk to his group of colleagues and resume their normal life as the head office, right?

But Sun Dawei didn't have that power either.He smiled wryly and said to Lin Changan: "Uncle, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I really can't help you. Not only me, but even the leaders of the Bureau of Radio, Film and Television can't do it! How can this group of reporters be banned? What about them exercising their interview rights? At most, I can only hold a small press conference for you, and then teach you how to answer their questions. These reporters can write press releases after getting the answers, and they will never I'm bothering you."

Lin Changan thought for a while, and felt that this was also an impossible solution, so he agreed.

Sun Dawei was very efficient. He flew from Beijing to Zhengzhou that day, planned a small press conference for Lin Changan and his wife, and flew back immediately after it was over.

This method is indeed feasible. At least [-]% to [-]% of the reporters wrote and wrote press releases after the press conference was held.But there are still some reporters squatting in Zhengzhou, they are all waiting for Lin Zhigao to go home during the winter break, so as to find opportunities to interview.

Most of the annoying flies in Lin Changan's life were gone at once, and he immediately felt refreshed and his breath was sweet. Just when Lin Changan and his wife were planning to return to work in two days, Lin Zhigao called coming.

He said he was going home in three days.

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Lin Zhigao originally planned to receive the European Golden Boy Award, and then take it back to China to show off in front of his parents.

And in his mind, to receive such an important award, it must be on a very grand occasion, accompanied by a high-end dinner party, and maybe groups of football stars, celebrities and so on.When the host called his name on the stage, he would go up to the stage in a suit and leather shoes, hold up the trophy, and deliver a bastard-like acceptance speech, sitting on the TV. all the spectators.

However, his perfect dream was shattered by a phone call from the Turin Sports Newspaper.

The staff of the newspaper office told him that the Golden Boy Award has never been given out by dinner parties, celebrities or hosts. Although this award is very important, it is handed out very randomly. Generally speaking, it is based on the season schedule of the award-winning players. In his next game, he will choose that stadium as the location for the award - Gotze won this trophy in the Bundesliga match last year. Before the start of the game, the award presenters from Turin, Italy set up a simple The podium, then Gotze stood there, the award presenter handed him the trophy, the media took pictures, and it was over.

Lin Zhigao's dream bubble was popped, so he asked the staff disheartened: "Then when are you going to set up a platform to send me the trophy? Or express delivery? If you choose express delivery, I will not disgusting."

"To be honest, you are very lucky this year." After hitting him with a stick, the staff chose to quickly replenish a sweet date: "Because the winter break has arrived and the league is suspended, we can't find the next Juventus player." There is only one game for you to set up a podium, so we have decided to postpone the awarding of your trophy until next month when the Serie A Oscars are held, which is an important awards ceremony! It will be broadcast live all over the country, and even other countries can receive it Satellite signal for the show!"

"Serie A Oscar?" Lin Zhigao quickly cheered up: "What is that?"

"...Uh." The staff was unsure: "Mr. Lin, are you joking? Don't you know what Serie A Oscar is?"

The deep shock and suspicion in the staff's tone made Lin Zhigao react quickly: "Haha, I was joking, and I was indeed joking."

The staff let out a sigh of relief: "Let me just say, how can any player who plays in Italy not know our Serie A Oscars? You have to make a funny joke, Mr. Lin, this joke is not at all truthful. funny."

Lin Zhigao could only touch his nose on the phone and let out a sneer.

"We will mail the invitation letter to you later, so please attend the awards ceremony in Milan on time on the 25th of next month."

"Well, okay." Lin Zhigao hung up the phone before calling Jiang Shupeng, and the first thing he said was: "My Golden Boy Award trophy is going to be sent out on Serie A Oscar night, what the hell is that?" ?”

Jiang Shupeng was also taken aback for a moment before realizing that Lin Zhigao was not joking. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he couldn't hide it with a deliberately flat voice. He asked with a smile, "Are you sure you have received the invitation letter for the Serie A Oscar?"

"The staff of the Turin newspaper said it would be mailed to me in a while. What, is the Oscar so great?"

"In Italy, it is really great, and even has a certain influence in European football." Jiang Shupeng said eloquently: "Serie A Oscar is a vote held every year in Serie A for the best players, foreign players, and goalkeepers. , rookies, coaches, referees, and defenders, and then find a place to hold an awards ceremony, and distribute these awards to the players. Because the selection method is voted by current Serie A players, which is the same as the selection method for movie Oscars. The awards ceremony was made like the Oscar party, so it was called the Serie A Oscars."

"It sounds very high-end..." Lin Zhigao touched his chin and pondered, "Could it be that their trophies are also statuettes?"

"...It's true that it's a statuette, but it's the image of a player playing football. I think you probably need to buy some formal clothes." Jiang Shupeng rubbed his temples, and said distressedly: "And at least five sets are needed to replace them. , you haven’t had many social occasions when you return to China this time, but after you sign those world-class brands, the dinner parties you need to attend during the summer break will come one after another. You can’t push it away. I don’t know Are there any tailors available in Milan and Paris? Now is the peak season for haute couture. If not, I know a good tailor in Savile Row, London. It’s just that the clothes made by British tailors may not suit Italians. taste."

"Suits? Just find a store and buy a few suits."

"Never!" Jiang Shupeng insisted with a strong tone: "I will never let you wear those poorly made clothes, or those clothes that are so bad that they are all over the street to attend a high-end dinner party!"

Lin Zhigao was embarrassed: "Brands like Armani and Versace are also bad?"

Jiang Shupeng replied without thinking: "Don't you know how high your status is in the country? You are not the spokesperson of those luxury brands, why should you advertise for them for free? I only want you to attend formal occasions. Wearing custom-made clothes is also sending a message to these world-class brands, otherwise, if Givenchy is interested in you, and the photos of you wearing Versace clothes to attend events are all over the street, how can those manufacturers sign you?"

"...Okay, okay. I'll listen to you."